Richard Webb

Author name: Richard Webb

Richard Webb has been active for more than 20 years in both professional aviation and canopy sports. He is a former F-14 Tomcat and F/A-18 SuperHornet fighter pilot... yes, the ones you land on aircraft carriers. He holds an Aeronautical Engineering degree and multiple Flight Instructor certificates in Airplanes and Helicopters. With steady progression and extensive global exploration in the basejumping community, Richard has used his aviation and educational background as a springboard to develop a ‘smarter, not harder’ methodology to wingsuit basejumping. His deliberate use of the scientific method has enabled a prolific chapter of new and technical wingsuit exits in the American Southwest in recent years.

Angle of Attack for DUMMIES

Experienced Base Jumper / By Richard Webb

Video and text by Richard Webb, Topgunbase Take your wingsuit aerodynamics knowledge to the next level with this video tutorial as we dive down the rabbit hole of Angle of Attack. Learn the 2 biggest pitfalls of flying at high AOA, and why they’re so deadly in the Wingsuit BASE arena. Angle of Attack (AOA) […]

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Speed: Part 1 – Why Fly Fast?

Experienced Base Jumper / By Richard Webb

Speed: Part 1 – Why Fly Fast? WBKS is off to a sickening start. The global Wingsuit Base Killing Season. June through September. Every year. The last two months have been horrific. It doesn’t matter if it’s your first WB jump, or your 1000th. Nobody is kill-proof. The Base Fatality List raced up to #300

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Speed: Part 2 – Stability vs Drag

Experienced Base Jumper / By Richard Webb

Welcome back to our discussion of Speed in Wingsuit BASE. In part 1, we built an academic framework defining the sensitivity of Available Lift (AL) to speed. Numerically, more speed = more AL = more life margin. The most important takeaway from Part 1: Any speed decrease can kill your Available Lift in seconds. When

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Speed and AOA: FAQ

Experienced Base Jumper / By Richard Webb

With the recent academic interest surrounding Speed and Angle of Attack in Wingsuit BASE, I’m getting numerous questions on real-world connections between the two. Thank you for your inquiring minds… I’ll try my best to answer some of the more popular questions below… 1) Are smaller suits safer in Wingsuit BASE because they’re faster? Wow,

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